Description

The Grade Center is the mathematical heart of Blackboard. Every assignment, assessment, or activity is stored in this online spreadsheet. Becoming proficient in the use of advanced Grade Center features such as Smart Views, Color Codes, and Calculated Columns can greatly reduce the time you spend entering data and explaining the results to your students. In this workshop, we'll explore each of these features and examin how they can be applied to your curriculum.

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Requirements

You'll need a syllabus and a course site to take full advantage of this session. Contact IDS if you need a development shell set up.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Set up grade center columns

Collect and score assignments through the Grade Center

Use Smart Views and Filters to quickly locate columns in large Grade Centers

Description

The flipped classroom, at its core, is an instructional model where students gain their first exposure to learning prior to class and focus on the processing and higher level thinking in class where they can be guided by the instructor. This workshop will help you learn the mechanics of flipping and work with you to strategize to present materials before class in ways that make sense and ensure that your students will do the work and come to class prepared.

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By the end of this work shop you will be able to:

Outline a flipped session for your course.

Consider and evaluate pedagogical strategies for teaching in a flipped classroom.

Identify in-class activities that engage students in higher level thinking.

Develop an individual plan for “flipping” a class in an upcoming course.

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Rubrics are an extremely powerful and effective teaching tool that help save time when you grade and give students clear criteria that they can use to self-evaluate. In this class we will learn about the three most common types of rubrics that are used for grading, including a type of rubric called a single-point rubric that can be used to grade work where the parameters for success are not clearly defined and change from student to student. In addition to this, we'll workshop a new rubric or a rubric that you are already using, learn how to use it for student self-reflection and benchmarking, and learn how to use the rubric tool by putting it up on blackboard.

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Requirements

Please bring:

A USB drive or something to save your work onto

A rubric that you have created and the assignment sheet that goes with it OR the assignment sheet for the rubric you'd like to create.

note: feel free to bring this as a hard copy but it might be easier to work with it if you have it in an editable format such as a .docx and won't have to retype it.

Your blackboard username and password

Optional:

Your own laptop to work on.

note: If you do not have a laptop or do not want to bring one we will provide you with a computer to use for the workshop.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Construct rubrics that help you evaluate your students and track progress over time.

Implement rubrics in your courses and draw on best practices to use them successfully.

Description

The Grade Center is the mathematical heart of Blackboard. Every assignment, assessment, or activity is stored in this online spreadsheet. Becoming proficient in the use of advanced Grade Center features such as Smart Views, Color Codes, and Calculated Columns can greatly reduce the time you spend entering data and explaining the results to your students. In this workshop, we'll explore each of these features and examin how they can be applied to your curriculum.

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Requirements

You'll need a syllabus and a course site to take full advantage of this session. Contact IDS if you need a development shell set up.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Set up grade center columns

Collect and score assignments through the Grade Center

Use Smart Views and Filters to quickly locate columns in large Grade Centers

Description

Compliments to your Syllabus that Enhance Readability

How many times in your teaching career have you had to tell a student that the information they are asking about is in the syllabus...if they'd only read it and look it over. This workshop explores three different ways to help your students understand your syllabus! We'll cover creating and using pacing guides, interactive syllabi, and infographic syllabi. IDS will provide the template and technical support and you’ll provide the syllabus - we’ll work together to create something you can use over and over again in your classes and increase student understanding of your expectations, the workload, and the class as a whole.

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Requirements

- A editable, digital copy of the syllabus you'd like to workshop

- Your Blackboard login and username.

- Any links to content, material, or other websites you'd like to include in your interactive syllabus.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Design and create an interactive syllabus based on an existing paper syllabus

Description

Rubrics are an extremely powerful and effective teaching tool that help save time when you grade and give students clear criteria that they can use to self-evaluate. In this class we will learn about the three most common types of rubrics that are used for grading, including a type of rubric called a single-point rubric that can be used to grade work where the parameters for success are not clearly defined and change from student to student. In addition to this, we'll workshop a new rubric or a rubric that you are already using, learn how to use it for student self-reflection and benchmarking, and learn how to use the rubric tool by putting it up on blackboard.

Hide description

Requirements

Please bring:

A USB drive or something to save your work onto

A rubric that you have created and the assignment sheet that goes with it OR the assignment sheet for the rubric you'd like to create.

note: feel free to bring this as a hard copy but it might be easier to work with it if you have it in an editable format such as a .docx and won't have to retype it.

Your blackboard username and password

Optional:

Your own laptop to work on.

note: If you do not have a laptop or do not want to bring one we will provide you with a computer to use for the workshop.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Construct rubrics that help you evaluate your students and track progress over time.

Implement rubrics in your courses and draw on best practices to use them successfully.

Description

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra has replaced the old-style Blackboard Collaborate as of Fall 2017. This new collaborate is a browser-based solution that no longer needs any downloads or installs to run. It also includes updated and upgraded versions of the features you're used to using in Collaborate. Applications and files are easier than ever to share, it's simple to set up and manage breakout rooms, and navigation has been made even more intuitive. Register for this workshop to learn how to use Collaborate Ultra and see how you can integrate it into your online classroom, use it for virtual office hours, create recordings of lectures, and so much more!

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By the end of the class:

You will be able to integrate Collaborate Ultra into their online and hybrid classes.

You will know how to use the different tools and features of Collaborate Ultra

Description

Compliments to your Syllabus that Enhance Readability

How many times in your teaching career have you had to tell a student that the information they are asking about is in the syllabus...if they'd only read it and look it over. This workshop explores three different ways to help your students understand your syllabus! We'll cover creating and using pacing guides, interactive syllabi, and infographic syllabi. IDS will provide the template and technical support and you’ll provide the syllabus - we’ll work together to create something you can use over and over again in your classes and increase student understanding of your expectations, the workload, and the class as a whole.

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Requirements

- A editable, digital copy of the syllabus you'd like to workshop

- Your Blackboard login and username.

- Any links to content, material, or other websites you'd like to include in your interactive syllabus.

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Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Design and create an interactive syllabus based on an existing paper syllabus